[RIGHT]So wish me away to an unknown placeI'm living in a land with no nameI'll be making a start with a brand new heartStop me making sense once again

All we need is our lives in a suitcaseThey belong to a friend of a friend'sAnd as we drink to ourselves we'll amuse ourselvesUnderneath the sky, underneath the sky againUnderneath the sky again[/RIGHT]

[RIGHT]It's funny how your dreams change as you're growing oldYou don't wanna be no spaceman, you just want the goldAll the dream stealers are lying in waitBut if you wanna be a spacemanIt's still not too late

Well it's alrightAnd It's alrightWho are you and me to sayWhat's wrong and what's rightDo you still feel like me We sit down here and we shall seeWe can talk about common groundAnd we can just forget about feeling downWe can just forget about life in this town[/RIGHT]

mooseOAK wrote:Similar to the US where all of these Red State rednecks with barely a pot to piss in are outraged that if the Democrats get elected people making $20 million a year might have to pay more taxes and hate the thought of Obamacare even though they benefit from it.

lol nah brah people down here get pissed about obama trying to steal their guns, murderin little unborn babies, and fags stickin their dicks in other dudes buttholes.

So, demonstrations continue in London and there's basically a MSM blackout of the whole affair. Accordingly, people have taken to social media to publicise what's going on. Of course, some small minority of the demonstrators (or cops dressed in the anarchist uniform) defaced a WWII memorial and this has become the whole of the issue for some people. Obviously if you dislike the election results and Austerity, you must support graffiti on war memorials. Still others view a video of the cops using standard decimation tactics (suddenly reaching into the crowd and picking people out who look like troublemakers at random, see: anarchist uniform) and their response is to surmise that the police must've had a reason and - better yet - to berate the demonstrators for the harsh language they used in their chants and toward the police. Next they'll be criticizing their fashion choices. Again, see: anarchist uniform. Oh wait, they already have: "If they're peaceful and have nothing to hide, why are they wearing masks?"

I suspect this is part of the reason why this nation never had a real revolution. Somebody probably said it was uncouth (or worse, so very Continental) to lob the King's head off and they all nodded in agreement. "Oh, indeed, that would be rather crass." Change without change.

Craig wrote:England's never had a real revolution?

AD wrote:No guillotine = no revolution.

The English were, in fact, quite proud of their revolution. They named it glorious, even.

Tom Foolery wrote:Somebody probably said it was uncouth (or worse, so very Continental) to lob the King's head off and they all nodded in agreement. "Oh, indeed, that would be rather crass." Change without change.

dempsey_k wrote:The Glorious Revolution is so inaptly named, because of the looseness of the meaning at the time. It was a restoration of a species of republicanism to Europe, but in our current parlance, the Charles I and Commonwealth stuff was the only revolution of the 17th cent. The American Revolution and Glorious Revolution should both be renamed IMO.

Well, it captures the pride of Parliament asserting authority over the crown, which had tremendous importance to the development of British identity for the coming century. It was also the culmination of the Charles I and Commonwealth stuff, and the final rebuke of the Stuart's desire for something approximating the monarchies of Spain and France.